06-30-2009, 10:49 AM
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GOAT!
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MythBuster uses Twitter to fight $11,000 phone bill
http://www.canada.com/news/MythBuste...348/story.html
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Savage and his wife were in Montreal for a five-day vacation earlier this month.
Not liking that disconnected feeling, he used a mobile modem — a thumb-sized device that plugs into a USB port on a laptop — from his U.S.-based AT&T carrier to connect to the Internet in Montreal.
On Friday, after he returned back to the United States, he discovered his cellphone had stopped working. When he called AT&T to find out the problem, his jaw dropped.
He was slapped with an $11,000 bill for data usage during his five-day stay in La Belle Province. With his Canadian roaming rates at $0.015 per kilobyte, he would have had to use about 750,000 kilobytes — or about 750 megabytes — worth of data transfers.
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Crazy!
...but, even more concerning, is this tidbit:
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In Canada, the large cellphone companies charge pay-per-use texters 15 cents to send a text message and, beginning next month, Rogers Communications Inc. will join Bell Canada and Telus Corp. with an additional charge of 15 cents to receive a text message.
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